Sri Bannanje Govindacharya has been awarded the Padma Shri for 2009 for his contribution to “Literature and Education”. This is a proud moment for all Madhvas. Sri Bannanje Govindacharya is one of the greatest Madhva scholars of this generation. His books and lectures are an outstanding source of information and inspiration to all Madhvas. He also has an excellent research mindset and has done amazing work in bringing out several unique facets of Sri Madhva’s philosophy.
He was also the consultant for the movie ‘Madhvacharya’ directed by Sri G V Iyer.
Truly a deserving award for Sri Bannanje!
- Website dedicated to Sri Bannanje’s works – anandamala.org
- Sri Bannanje’s wikipedia page.
- Sri Bannanje’s discourses online at kannadaaudio.com
Anandatirtha Prathishtana 
Dear Hariprasad,
Namaste. The award is a well-deserved honour to Sri Bannanje Govindacharya. I recently listened to his discourse series on ‘Krishnana Kathe’ in Kannadaaudio.com. ‘Maha mahiLe Draupadi’ is also a nice one. His other discourse series are also interesting. It was a real surprise to me when I came to know that Sri Bannanje had scripted the dialogues for the G.V.Iyer movie on ‘Sri Shankaracharya’. I had seen the film long ago when it was first released. But this piece of info. is new to me.
Thanks for your tributes to such a great scholar.
Regards,
subrahmanian.v